Right now is the late Jane Birkin’s birthday. The English-born singer, actress, and vogue icon died in 2023, and this weekend, her adoptive hometown of Paris honored her legacy by renaming the “passerelle des Douanes” to “passerelle Jane Birkin.”
The newly-named Jane Birkin Footbridge is the oldest bridge crossing the Canal Saint-Martin, in Paris’ tenth arrondissement. Birkin’s daughters Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon every gave a speech on the renaming ceremony, the place additionally they unveiled an indication that reads in French “singer, actress, director.” See clips and images of that ceremony beneath.
